May 17, 2007 - Sale 2114

Sale 2114 - Lot 490

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
MANUSCRIPT EDITION (SETS AND BINDINGS.) Throreau, Henry David. The Writings . . . Manuscript Edition. 20 volumes. Photogravure frontispieces and plates with lettered tissue guards. 8vo, publisher's green cloth with paper spine labels, spines and edges of covers visibly mottled, many labels chipped along edges, scattered wear. Boston, 1906

Additional Details

number 461 of 600 sets with an original manuscript leaf by thoreau and signed by the publisher in Volume 1. This particular entry includes the following passage: "I confess that practically speaking, when I have learned a man's real character, I have no hope of changing them for better or worse in this state of existence."